Multicellular Organization Laboratory

 

News 2012

February.  Valentine-Day presents from Ms. Konagaya.  Heart-shaped donuts!

Another present from Ms. Nakajima. OKONOMIYAKI!

March. Visit of Ms. Bannai as a temporal student.

February. Dr. Nakayama will join us as a new postdoc.

March. A birthday present of a LONG rolled cake to Mr. Uemura.

March. Visit of Mr. Fujii as a temporal student.

March. Dr. Ralf Schnabel gave us a seminar about cell-focusing.

April.  A photo of all lab members for Yoran.

April.  Dr. Ihara was awarded a MEXT Prize for Young Investigators.

April.  NIG retreat was held in Hakone.

May. Ms. Ankita joined our lab from India as a NIGINTERN student.

June.  Ms. Ankita held a Chai party with delicious Indian dishes.

June. Presentations by lab members at East Asia C. elegans meeting held in Taiwan.

July.

Farewell party for Ankita. Cooking Takoyaki!

A yukata was given to Ankita as a farewell gift.

How cute she is!

July.  Dr. Zhirong Bao at Sloan-Kettering Institute gave us a seminar.

August.  Visit of Ms. Fukuda as a temporal student.

In one week, she identified a gene required for asymmetric division.

September. 

Farewell party for Dr. Sugioka.

Good Luck!

October. 

We were excited to see Nobel Laureate Sir John Sulston in our lab.

November.  Dr. Ihara received Takenaka Award and had lunch with vice-president of the  Astellas company.  What were they talking about?

December. Dr. Ihara received Tomizawa Award from the Molecular Biology Society of Japan and Young Investigator Award from the Japanese Biochemical Society.

December. Year-end party.